Word: childlessness
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...sound Ph.D. dissertation could be written on the curious phenomenon of children's literature written by childless authors. From Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, the phenomenon persists. The incidence is too high to be coincidental. Perhaps the writers substitute audience for family. Perhaps, like Beatrix Potter, they seem more comfortable in the domain of childhood, where fantasy is the norm and reality the intruder...
...urgently recommends that society develop an "ethics of genetic duty." The right to have children can become an obligation not to have them, Ramsey asserts; it is shocking to him that parents will refuse genetic counseling and take the "grave risk of having defective children rather than remain childless." Dead set as he is against abortion in all but the most serious cases, Ramsey would prefer to see one parent undergo voluntary sterilization. "Genetic imprudence," he says, "is gravely immoral...
...Thames Valley. The most lyrical of the group, she is also the least concerned with plot. Child from the Sea is her 25th novel, and she claims mildly that it will be her last. - Victoria Holt is a pseudonym, the only one in the group. Its owner is a childless London widow named Eleanor Hibbert, 64, who now spends much of her time on luxury cruises. She is incredibly prolific-more than 100 books in all-and contrives wondrously complex plots. In addition to romances, she does straight historical novels under the name Jean Plaidy...
...this suggests a picture of new American population patterns emerging in the next decade or so. The rural population, which is diminishing, is not likely to be replaced by big-city or suburban dropouts in search of a better life. The cities will become increasingly the habitat of singles, childless couples, blacks and the other nonwhite minorities. "Manhattan may be the prototype city of the future-for either the poor or the rich," says Rakove...
...play is an intense emotional experience, a real pleasure. George and Martha draw their casual acquaintances into attacks and confessions that bring Nick and Honey to quite real psychological bondage to the older couple, and that expose to both couples and to the audience, the real horrors of their childless marriage. Honey is a nervous dependent type, played a little affectedly by Miss Heineman; the process of subjugation has to work hardest on the strong, young-and-ambitious biology professor, Nick, Al Ronzio's handling of the problem of this difficult subjugation is confident, if at times momentarily ambiguous...